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Yield and climate change adaptation using alley cropping

How can trees maintain crop yields?

Climate change scenarios predict fewer but more intense rain events. Dry spring and summer weather reduces crop yields. Water loss from the crop is controlled by solar radiation, air temperature, wind speed and humidity.

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Gunarsholt’s windbreaks in Iceland

The farm in Gunarsholt belongs to the governmental agency – Soil Conservation Service (SCS). In 1944, Icelandic government purchased the land and undertook efforts to restore the land to the sustainable production. After many years of intensive work, the farm is presently simply submerged in greenness.

Vinha do Enforcado

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Language Portuguese, Portugal

Submitted by anatomas on Thu, 05/02/2019 - 14:57

Hanged vineyard: an ancient and endangered agroforestry wine production system in Northern Portugal

In the Portuguese Northern region, a traditional system originated from the middle ages persists, although with an alarming decreasing area: the ‘hanged vineyard’ (‘vinha do enforcado’). The system is based on the combined production of grapes for wine production, cultivated around the limits of the agricultural plots, deliberately managed in a vertical position (reaching 4 m or more) with the support of trees such as Platanus spp, Celtis australis, Fraxinus spp etc. Inside the plots, arable crops production or pastoral activities are carried out.

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Submitted by anatomas on Thu, 05/02/2019 - 14:55